VideoLAN 0.7.1
Posted on: 03/03/2004 07:04 PM

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

What's New in Current Version:

Core support:
- Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
- IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.

Codecs:
- Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
(http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
- Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
- SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles

Playlist:
- Internal improvments
- Improved import/export

Input:
- Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
container formars.
- New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
small and strange formats.
- New PVA demux.
- New MOD audio demux.
- Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
- Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
- New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
- Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.

Stream output:
- MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
- Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
- Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).

Service discovery:
- Fixed sdp in SAP.


Download: VideoLAN 0.7.1 [ 6.08 MB ]

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